To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
~By Kim Campbell ~
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
~By Pat Riley ~
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
~By Philip Massinger ~
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
~By Ravi Shankar ~
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
~By Frances Burney ~
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
~By Willa Cather ~
I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.
~By David Friedman ~
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
~By James K. Polk ~
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
~By Georg Solti ~
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
~By Ethan Coen ~
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
~By Bill Bradley ~
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.
~By Claire Bloom ~
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
~By Salvador Dali ~
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.
~By Lynette Fromme ~
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
~By Mandy Moore ~
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
~By James M. Barrie ~
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
~By Paul Daniels ~
My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
~By Hamid Karzai ~
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~By Herbert Kaufman ~
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
~By Jock Sturges ~
Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.
~By Neil Tennant ~
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
~By Milan Kundera ~
In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
~By Robert Browning ~
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
~By Elihu Root ~
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
~By Oliver Herford ~
The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
~By Zach Wamp ~
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
~By James Cook ~
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.
~By Joe Rogan ~
Big results require big ambitions.
~By Heraclitus ~
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
~By Terry Josephson ~
My ambition is to be happy.
~By Penelope Cruz ~
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
~By Graham Roberts ~
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
~By Horace Walpole ~
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
~By Timothy Leary ~
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~By William Whitehead ~
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
~By William Hazlitt ~
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
~By Lynn Davies ~
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.
~By Rob Morrow ~
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
~By Barack Obama ~
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Ambition never comes to an end.
~By Kenneth Kaunda ~
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
~By Michael Korda ~
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
~By Theophrastus ~
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
~By Sallust ~
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
~By Adam Smith ~
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
~By A. C. Benson ~
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
~By Trevor Phillips ~
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
~By John Webster ~
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
~By Omar Bongo ~
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
~By Henry Taylor ~
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
~By Lee Atwater ~
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
~By Peter Straub ~
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
~By George W. Bush ~
It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
~By Alan Hansen ~
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
~By Susan Sontag ~
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
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